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OpenAI and Anthropic Experience Outages on September 3

On September 3, 2026, AI services from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI faced outages. OpenAI cited a routing error, while Anthropic reported a partial outage affecting its Claude models. SpaceX attributed issues with Grok to an outage at its Memphis compute center. There were also unconfirmed reports of a Google Gemini outage.

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On September 3, 2026, AI services from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI faced outages. OpenAI cited a routing error, while Anthropic reported a partial outage affecting its Claude models. SpaceX attributed issues with Grok to an outage at its Memphis compute center. There were also unconfirmed reports of a Google Gemini outage.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Experience Outages on September 3